Extremes

Tuesday

Dec 23, 2008 at 9:56 AM

The outcry from the left about Obama’s selection of Pastor Warren to do the Invocation at the Inauguration is typical of the intolerance demonstrated by the far left and far right. Both are part of the problem because neither is capable of seeing any merit in the other perspective. Personally, I disagree with almost everything Warren stands for but that doesn’t mean he should be shunned.
The past eight years have given clear evidence of the damage that can be done when governing is done through the lens of a dogmatic ideology. The intolerant far right has made every attempt to impose their rigid beliefs on the rest of society through court appointments and executive orders of the Bush administration. My answer to them is keep those extreme views in your church and in your home. I have the same message for the equally intolerant far left. One would hope that after the past eight years these people would understand the damage done by imposing extreme views on society but evidently that is not the case. I applaud Obama’s courage to reach out.
The only way to get this country back on track is to be willing to have fact-based reason prevail with reasonable compromise on areas of difference. Neither extreme is capable of this and neither should be allowed to dominate.
Steven Donatone Hampstead

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